Ukraine Waterfall

Bukhtivets Waterfall

A 8 m drop.

When to go

Gudyma s · CC BY-SA 3.0

In numbers.

Height

0.38m³/s

Average flow

estimate

Apr–Jul

Best months

30kW

Water power

estimate

The water at Bukhtivets Waterfall, month by month

It roars from April to July.

The fullest months: from April to July. The thinnest: December. Below −4 °C on average (January): the falls can partly freeze.

0.2 m³/sJan
0.3 m³/sFeb
0.5 m³/sMar
0.7 m³/sApr
0.9 m³/sMay
0.9 m³/sJun
0.8 m³/sJul
0.5 m³/sAug
0.5 m³/sSep
0.4 m³/sOct
0.2 m³/sNov
0.1 m³/sDec

high water best months to go may freeze

From about 0.11 m³/s in the lowest month to 0.90 m³/s in the highest. Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from April to July.

Estimate: the timing comes from rain, snowmelt and evaporation (NASA POWER, 1991–2020); the amounts from the river model of HydroATLAS (WaterGAP, 1971–2000). Dams upstream can change the real flow.

Hydrological natural monument in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine

Bukhtivets Waterfall is a waterfall in Ukraine. The water falls 8 m.

Getting there.

Pasichnanearest town · 5.0 km in a straight line
Maramureș International Airport (BAY)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 125 km in a straight lineCar hire at IFO airport (Ivano-Frankivsk)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
From April to Julybest months to go (estimate)

Plan your visit

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How big is it?

How big it really is.

Height of the drop from Wikidata. Buildings and the person are drawn at the same scale.

30 kW

About 0.38 m³/s falling 8 m: the power of the water as it drops.

enough to power about 7 homes, if it were all turned into electricity

Power of falling water = density × gravity × flow × height. Average flow and height as shown above; an estimate.

Seen from the sky.

8 × 8 km of cloud-free satellite image, with what OpenStreetMap knows around the falls.

Bukhtivets Waterfall seen from above (Sentinel-2)

N 2 km

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 8 × 8 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

The Бухтовець through the falls

The line follows the river as mapped in OpenStreetMap; heights from the 30 m Copernicus model, which smooths narrow drops — the published height of the falls is the one above.

The valley below the falls

Around the falls the river drops 117 m in 3.6 km. Here the river runs about 59 m below the lower rim of its valley.

What is around.

1viewpointsОглядова вежа
3waymarked walking routesс. Гута - с. Пасічна, с. Манява - пол. Монастирецька, Зелений
—car parks
—swimming spots
4picnic sites
—toilets
1information boards and visitor centres
—bus stops within 1 km
9other named waterfalls within 4 kmКрапельковий водоспад, Водоспад Бухтівецький Верхній, Мар'янчині водоспади and 6 more
—caves
17campsitesХороше місце and 16 more
1hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmРозтока
—restaurants and cafés within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit, up to 2 km around the falls (unless noted). A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet. © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

Towns nearby

Pasichna5.0 km in a straight line
Maniava5.8 km in a straight line
Bytkiv8.2 km in a straight line
Markova9.9 km in a straight line
Pniv12 km in a straight line
Solotvyn12 km in a straight line
Porohy12 km in a straight line
Huta13 km in a straight line

Weather

The weather, month by month.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Afternoon °C	-2	0	5	12	17	21	23	23	18	12	6	0
Night °C	-9	-7	-4	2	8	12	13	13	8	3	-1	-6
Rain & snow (mm)	43	45	57	62	111	124	119	78	74	64	48	45
Wet days	11	11	13	13	17	18	17	12	12	10	11	12
Sun h/day	2.4	3.5	4.6	6.0	6.7	7.0	7.5	7.4	5.5	4.0	2.1	1.6
Snow on the ground (cm)	20	19	14	5	0	0	0	0	0	4	10	18

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (654 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

Photos

Through visitors' eyes.

Bukhtivec'kyj waterfall — Dmitro Ostapchuk · CC BY-SA 3.0

Bukhtivec'kyj waterfall1 — Dmitro Ostapchuk · CC BY-SA 3.0

3071HDR — Viktoriia Lienova · CC BY-SA 4.0

Recent years

Wet years and dry years

Rain of each month as a share of the 1991–2020 average. A wet season above 100 % usually means a fuller waterfall.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2020	38%	164%	96%	45%	130%	202%	125%	59%	157%	155%	41%	109%
2021	123%	148%	131%	127%	112%	88%	123%	112%	60%	22%	78%	229%
2022	114%	72%	22%	98%	40%	46%	53%	89%	257%	64%	134%	165%
2023	132%	145%	77%	179%	48%	148%	127%	106%	50%	84%	179%	150%
2024	138%	115%	96%	92%	46%	83%	76%	55%	157%	74%	86%	74%
2025	73%	28%	103%	130%	108%	22%	134%	60%	115%	88%	94%	46%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

Compare with the waterfalls nearby.

Bukhtivets Waterfall

Ukraine

8 mHeight
0.38 m³/sAverage flow
Apr–JulBest months

Maniava waterfall

Ukraine

20 mHeight
—Average flow
Apr–JulBest months

See the guide

Krapelkovyi Waterfall

Ukraine

10 mHeight
0.38 m³/sAverage flow
Apr–JulBest months

See the guide

Dzvinka Waterfall

Ukraine

6 mHeight
—Average flow
Apr–JulBest months

See the guide

About these numbers

Names, height, width, river	Wikidata (Q12086010) · CC0
River flow and catchment	HydroATLAS / RiverATLAS v1.0 (Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0
Climate	NASA POWER, 1991–2020
Relief, river profile, 3D model	Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Paths, viewpoints, parking	© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
Images	EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.